Office 365: the 3 best alternatives
Office 365 offers its users a wealth of functions. But there are also many free alternatives that you can work with without any problems. In this article, we present three alternative programs with which you can manage your everyday office work just as efficiently and, above all, free of charge.
Office 365 alternative Google Docs
Google's office web applications are called "Docs", "Sheets" and "Presentations". You can also be reached via Google Drive. Functionally, the software comes very close to the market leader Microsoft Office.
- As an experienced Office user, you should have no problems with the changeover. Because: The range of programs from Google is based on Office 365 and is very easy to use.
- "Docs", "Tables" and "Presentations" are also immediately ready for use via the web application. A download is not necessary.
- In addition to the web applications, you can get 15 gigabytes of cloud storage for free from Google Drive.
- The Microsoft Office formats can be exported and imported without any problems.
OpenOffice as an office alternative
Whether for word processing, spreadsheets or presentations, Open Office is a very good and widespread alternative to the market leader Microsoft Office. The software has its own structure, so experienced Microsoft Office users might only need a short familiarization phase at the beginning. Apart from that, the program offers many advantages:
- Open Office is updated regularly and is therefore always up to date.
- Microsoft Office formats can be easily imported and exported.
- The structure of the program focuses primarily on smooth functioning and less on design. This means that relatively little hard disk space is required.
LibreOffice
Libre Office is an independent extension of OpenOffice. This successor has now been able to improve all areas in which OpenOffice saved in terms of design technology.
- While the program previously only supported "Open Document Formats", it is now possible to use file types that were previously only available in Microsoft Office.
- All common file types can be imported and exported without difficulty.
- The software is also very understandable and easy to get started with.
